Chuck Sardo reports: Developers and operators seeking their share of China’s growing senior housing market pie have identified design as a way to distance themselves from the competition.

As senior living in China enters a new era, architects and designers are putting as much effort into a community’s look and feel as its functionality, Jason Briscoe, a partner with architecture firm Steinberg Hart, told Senior Housing News.…

The National Center for Educational Statistics data projects that the student population will reach 23 million by 2020. How this quickly growing student population wants to live—and what ultimately creates a vibrant and fiscally successful student residential community—is changing. Partnering with institutions across the country and drawing from the firm’s market-rate residential design expertise, Steinberg Hart is creating innovative housing models for a variety of student types.…

The (San Jose) Mercury News reports on the Steinberg Hart-designed Santa Clara Agrihood: “In a first for the Bay Area, developers hoping to break ground on a new housing complex next year are wooing potential residents by offering a quirky but increasingly popular perk.…

We’re pleased to share that Invicta has been named the winner of the 2018 AIA Silicon Valley People’s Choice Award. Standing as a symbol of the innovation and inclusiveness of the tech industry, this mixed-use development serves as a gateway into San Jose’s SoFA (South of First Area) Arts District.…

By Karen Jordan for CoStar — A growing crowd of tourists are fueling a surge in hotel projects in Hollywood as the famous Los Angeles neighborhood undergoes a revival meant to bring back some of the glitz and glamour associated with area’s roots in the Golden Age of film.…

By Antonio Pacheco for The Architect’s Newspaper — Over 30 years after it was initially planned, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has started tunneling the final phases of the Purple Line subway.

According to Metro, when completed in 2026, it will be possible to take a one-seat underground ride from Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles to Westwood—an area home to the University of California, Los Angeles campus, the Veterans Administration complex, and other major institutions—in roughly 25 minutes.…

By Will Speros for Hospitality Design — Oxford Hotels and Resorts and Oxford Capital Group has announced that its latest high-end boutique concept—The Godfrey Hotel Hollywood—will make its debut in spring 2019. Totaling 145,000 square feet, the hotel will be constructed in close proximity to three major, forthcoming developments including the $450 million mixed-use hub Academy on Vine.…